GABRIELLE DUPLANTIER (FR)

GABRIELLE DUPLANTIER

MATER MATUTA WAS THE MOTHER OF THE EARLY MORNING, THE WARDEN OF THE WORLD’S VITAL FORCES. GABRIELLE DUPLANTIER’S PHOTOGRAPHS EXUDE THAT SENSE OF THE ORIGINS, SHARED BETWEEN MOTHER EARTH AND THE CREATIVE WOMAN, WHO SHALL GIVE BIRTH SOMEDAY… PERHAPS. SHE MAKES HER WAY AGAIN AND AGAIN THROUGH THE LANDS OF HER MEMORIES, OF HER CHILDHOOD – THE PAYS BASQUE, PORTUGAL – ECHOING THE SPIRIT OF THE MOUNTAINS, OF THE SACRED, OF THE DEAD SOULS, OF THE ANCESTRAL RITUALS. SHE MAKES EACH PLACE PREGNANT WITH WOMEN AND LITTLE GIRLS OFTEN BROWN-HAIRED AND DARK-EYED WHOSE UNIQUE AND ENTIRE BEAUTY EXPRESSES THE UNTAMED STATEMENT OF THEIR PRESENCE IN THE WORLD.
EMANCIPATION, MELANCHOLY, FEMININE IMMEMORIAL TIMES.

AND THEN, SLOWLY LETTING ITSELF SLIDE TO REACH ITS PLENITUDE, THE BODY LETS IT GO AND INDULGES SOME TIME FOR ITSELF. ON A RIVER BANK, IN THE SHADOW OF A BED, AT THE BORDERS OF SLEEP… THERE, WHERE THE WORLD CAN SENSE ITS OWN ETERNAL INVENTIVENESS, ITS OWN REBIRTH THROUGHOUT ITS INFINITE DREAMS, TALES, MEMORIES, WILD FANCIES.